1855 United States Tycoon

In China at that time, there were gangs in almost every city and every pier. Among the gang organizations in China, the two with the largest scale and most far-reaching influence are Hongmen and Qinggang.

The so-called Hongmen refers to the Tiandihui created by Mr. Chen Zongruo that everyone is familiar with in various martial arts stories. This organization has always taken "anti-Qing and Fuming" as its mission, and has launched many anti-Qing uprisings in history. It was also hit by the Manchu government. However, the control of the feudal regime over the grassroots has always been a big problem. Therefore, although the Manchu Dynasty suppressed the Tiandihui uprising time and time again, but at most it only broke up the Tiandihui, but it was still unable to be wiped out. After the heaven and the earth will be dispersed in various places, on the one hand, they have combined with the local grassroots to become a deep-rooted local snake, making the Qing government even less able to deal with them. Hongmen from various places that are tightly bound together cannot form a joint force.

However, Hongmen has always been very concerned about anti-Qing and Ming Ming. Although their own uprisings generally behave very generally, they basically can't make a big wave. (The organization of the underworld nature is too entangled with the various interests of the locality. It needs to find a balance among these forces. One result is that his own internal interests are also very complicated. As a result, problems often occur when doing big things.) But As long as someone set off anti-Qing activities, Hong Men always behaved very positively. For example, in the previous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, Hongmen gave a lot of support to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The famous navy general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Luo Guizhou was a member of Hongmen. In the Shanghai Uprising, the Small Sword Society that responded to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also a member of the Hongmen. By the way, the music "Small Sword Society Overture" in the dance drama "Small Sword Society" with the theme of the "Small Sword Society Uprising" later became one of the most used background music in martial arts movies and TV.

However, in Hangzhou, the green gang has more advantages. Compared with the Hong Clan, which started against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Gang is closer to a guild organization. The history of the Qing Gang is a bit later than that of Hongmen. It is said that during the Yongzheng period, the Emperor Yongzheng issued the Yellow List, and the imperial mission Tian Wenjing recruited the people to set up waterway food transportation. As a result, water transport has flourished, and more and more people are eating water transport.

At this time, three brothers of the opposite sex took over the imperial list in Hangzhou and founded the later Qinggang organization. These three are divided according to their age. The elder's surname is Weng Shan Mingyan with the word Fuming, Dao name Dehui, a native of Changshu, Jiangsu, originally from Gulou Street, Liaocheng County, Dongchangfu, Shandong. He studied art at Shaolin Temple in Henan and joined Tiandihui in the second year of Yongzheng; the second surname was Qian Shan, whose name was Jian, the word was Fu Zhai, and Dao name was Dezheng. He was originally from Liaocheng County, Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong, moved to Henan. Tiandihui; the youngest person's surname is Pan Dan, whose name is Xuanting, Dao name is Delin, and the people of Yabaqiao outside the Martial Forest in Hangzhou, Zhejiang (some unofficial history writes the three as Weng Lin, Qian Bao, and Pan An) . This is the third master of the Qing Gang.

Two of the three ancestors of the Green Gang came from Hongmen, but they are different from the Hongmen who call each other brothers. The Qinggang organization is apprentice and joins the gang, and the congregation is known as the master and apprentice, and advocates "the master and the apprentice are like father and son." The Qinggang organization is stricter than Hongmen, the rules are more complicated, and so are more secretive. Therefore, there is a saying: "One line of the green gang, a large area of ​​the Hongmen."

The guild-oriented Qing gang did not emphasize the anti-Qing and Ming dynasty as the Hongmen did, so Hongmen once regarded him as a traitor and strictly prohibited Hongmen members from turning to the Qinggang, saying that "from green to hong, with red and color; from Hong to green," Skin cramps." However, in order to avoid conflict, they still admitted that the "Qinghong Family", the so-called "Red Flower Green Leaf White Lotus Root (referring to Hongmen, Qinggang, and Bailian Sect), the three religions were originally one family."

Hangzhou is the birthplace of the Qinggang. Although due to the decline of water transportation and the rise of sea trade, most of the power of the Qinggang has now been transferred to Shanghai. Hangzhou is no longer the largest port of the Qinggang, but it is still the Qinggang after all. The birthplace, and this city is also the provincial capital of Zhejiang, so here, the strength of the Youth Gang is not bad.The people of the Liberation Association didn't have much contact with the Qinggang, but it was still easy to find the people of the Hangzhou Qinggang.

That evening, a Toyo car parked outside a small courtyard in the Hangzhou Japanese Concession. Speaking of Hangzhou, the Japanese Concession is a wonderful thing. After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan won the right to establish a concession in Hangzhou. The local officials of Hangzhou were naturally unwilling to lease the places in the city to the Japanese, so they leased the wasteland on the east of the canal outside the city and on the north of Gongchen Bridge to the Japanese. This place is extremely remote and the traffic is inconvenient. However, this does not bother the Japanese. They took the Japanese-style custom tourism industry (also known as the smoke-free industry) as the forerunner and adopted the policy of combining the five halls (women's branch hall, smoke hall, gambling hall, theater hall, and restaurant) to promote this area. Development of wasteland. Under their governance, this wasteland quickly became prosperous. By 1907, it had become the most prosperous place in Hangzhou.

Such prosperity certainly attracted the attention of the gangs. Nowadays, the leading figures of the Hangzhou Youth Gang basically live in the Japanese Concession.

The foreign car stopped, a man in a long shirt got out of the car and threw a few copper plates to the coachman. Then he walked to the door of the small courtyard, reached out his hand to hold the knocker on the black painted door and knocked on the door gently.

There was a creak in the door, but the door did not open, only a small window on the door was opened, and a face full of flesh appeared in the window.

"Who are you looking for? What's the matter?" An impatient voice came out.

"My child, Wang Tianru, is Mr. Ye's friend. He came to visit Mr. Ye specially." The man took off his hat and nodded slightly.

"Then wait, I'll report it." The person inside responded, and then the small window banged and closed again.

After a while, the black lacquered iron door opened with a bang, and Wang Tianru saw two men in short shirts standing behind the door with a mirror box inserted between their waists. They nodded to Wang Tianru and said, "Mr. Ye would like to please."

Wang Tianru walked straight in, and then the door closed behind him.

Wang Tianru followed a short shirt into the living room and saw a tall man in a dark blue long shirt waiting there.

"What wind was blowing today that brought Mr. Wang to me?" The man just smiled as soon as they met.

"Everything does not go to the Three Treasures Palace, Mr. Ye, this time I am here, and I have something to ask for Mr.". Wang Tian is quite straightforward.

"Mr. Wang is still so refreshing." The man smiled, "Mr. Wang, please sit down and let's talk slowly."

The two sat down on the wicker chairs in the living room, and a servant brought tea.

"Mr. Wang said he asked me for help. I don't know what it is. If he can help, Ye must be selling Mr. Wang's face." Mr. Ye said with a smile.

"So, I won't cover it." Wang Tianru also smiled, "Mr. Let’s not hide it, this time I came here with the trust of the Salvation Hospital. As you know, there have been a lot of incidents against the Salvation Hospital recently. Rumors."

"I do know this. It's just that the people are ignorant. It is inevitable to guess these western scenes." Mr. Ye nodded slightly and said.

"Now that the Salvation Hospital has just been established, it was just when it was first named, but these rumors suddenly popped up. To say that no one is doing it, maybe few people believe it. It's just that the Salvation Hospital is a foreign country. The hospital, they don’t know much about China, but they don’t know about it because they inadvertently offended anyone. So, Dean McMillan asked me to ask you what kind of charter is behind this. If there is any problem. Well, everyone can discuss it.” Wang Tianru continued to explain.

"Mr. Wang." The Mr. Ye said suddenly, "I remember my husband seemed to be very close to the Revolutionary Party? My husband is now helping a foreigner's hospital. I don't know how the doctor MacMillan moved Mr. Wang?"

"This is naturally because this Mr. McMillan helped us." Wang Tianru replied, "Mr. McMillan is a doctor and a foreigner. He can help us a lot."

"This Mr. McMillan was a military doctor, right?" The Mr. Ye asked suddenly.

"Yes, I have been on the battlefield." Wang Tianru replied. This is not a secret. It was mentioned when the Salvation Hospital was introduced in the newspaper.

"Oh, that's not bad." Mr. Ye nodded, and said suddenly: "This Salvation Hospital, if it is Mr. Wang's property, brother, I would naturally not say anything, I want to help. But the hospital is a foreigner. Yes, brother, I don’t know why I have to exert this effort."

Wang Tianru knew that Mr. Ye didn't really want to refuse these words, he was just waiting to make a price. So he said like this: "Brother, I'm just helping people to pass a message. The foreigner asks his husband for help, so naturally he won't be empty-handed. Does the husband know the origin of this salvation hospital?"

"This is not very clear." Mr. Ye replied.

"This Hangzhou Salvation Hospital is just a branch hospital. The Salvation Hospital is a large hospital group in the United States. It belongs to the Baptist Church of the United States. It is said that the largest funder is the Macdonald family of the rich United States. The Macdonald family manages the largest arms and medicine business in the United States, both of which are very lucrative businesses. There are many people who need these things. I am afraid that many of Mr. Ye's businesses also need these things." Wang Tianru said slowly.

"Oh? This Doctor Macmillan actually has such a thing in his hands?" Mr. Ye suddenly became serious, "I want to say that brothers really need these. Especially my business, the medicine and firearms to treat Hualiu disease are indispensable, just these. Nothing is easy to get. If Mr. McMillan can get in touch with these things, Ye Mou is naturally willing to help."

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